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7.5Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.
Cast
- Jean-Marc Barr as Jacques Mayol
- Jean Reno as Enzo Molinari
- Rosanna Arquette as Johana Baker
- Paul Shenar as Dr. Laurence
- Sergio Castellitto as Novelli
- Jean Bouise as Uncle Louis
Themes
- dying and death
- friendship
- suicide
- diving
- sports
- parent child relationship
- ocean
- italy
- competition
- oxygen
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Key facts
- French
- Le Grand Bleu
- Directed by
- Luc Besson
- Screenplay by
- Luc Besson Robert Garland Marilyn Goldin Jacques Mayol Marc Perrier
- Story by
- Luc Besson
- Produced by
- Patrice Ledoux
- Starring
- Rosanna Arquette Jean-Marc Barr Jean Reno Paul Shenar Sergio Castellitto Marc Duret Griffin Dunne
- Cinematography
- Carlo Varini
- Edited by
- Olivier Mauffroy
- Music by
- Éric Serra (original) Bill Conti (US version)
- Production company
- Gaumont
- Distributed by
- Gaumont Distribution (France) Weintraub Entertainment Group Columbia Pictures (United States) Filmauro (Italy)
- Release dates
- 11 May 1988 ( 1988-05-11 ) (France) 19 August 1988 ( 1988-08-19 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 168 minutes
- Countries
- France United States Italy
- Languages
- English Italian French
- Budget
- FRF 80 million , ( estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. US$13.5 million)
- Box office
- 9.2 million admissions (France) $4 million (worldwide)
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The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film co-written and directed by Luc Besson. Inspired by the Cinéma du look movement, the film is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Big Blue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.